URE


  1. Undergraduate Record Examination.

Other definitions for -ure (2 of 2)

-ure

  1. an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin: pressure; legislature.

Origin of -ure

2
<French -ure<Latin -ūra

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British Dictionary definitions for -ure

-ure

suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating act, process, or result: seizure

  2. indicating function or office: legislature; prefecture

Origin of -ure

1
from French, from Latin -ūra

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